Minutes, notes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, newsletters, and mechanical drawings, with a focus on the issue of redevelopment.
A common thread is the concern by residents of both the Hunters Point and Western Addition Area A-2 communities of a recurrence
of the Western Addition Area A-1 experience, with demolition removing thousands of low-income people who received insufficient
relocation housing assistance and inadequate replacement housing.

Related Materials

See also Series 3: Public Services.

Arrangement

This series is organized into subseries by staff member.

Subseries A
John F. Shelley,1964-1967

Physical Description:
0.33 cubic feet

Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains the mayor's files on only three subjects, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), civil disturbance
procedure, and the Palace Hotel, as well as a biography. Soon after Shelley came into office, he was faced with Negro rights
pickets at the Palace Hotel, Lucky Stores, and the city's "Auto Row." Constituent correspondence reveals opinions on the Palace
Hotel strike, in particular.

ABAG, a regional planning agency started in 1961, was dealing with issues including the filling of San Francisco Bay, open
space, transportation, and regional home rule. Shelley brought San Francisco into ABAG for the first time and was an advocate
of regional home rule, recommending the establishment of a unified, limited-function government structure for the Bay Area
to deal with regional planning, refuse disposal, open space, and an airport system. The ABAG files demonstrate his efforts
to legislate such a body, to change the composition of ABAG's executive committee to half publicly-elected instead of all
supervisors and city councilmen, and to maintain the city's watershed areas in Alameda and San Mateo counties.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically.

Box 1, Folders 1-4

Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG),1965-1967

Box 9, Folder 1

ABAG, Preliminary Regional Plan,November, 1966

Box 1, Folder 5

Biographical and Office Organization,[ca. 1964]-1965

Box 1, Folder 6

Civil Disturbance Procedure,1967

Box 1, Folders 7-9

Palace Hotel, Constituent Correspondence,1964

Subseries B
T.J. Kent,1961-1967

Physical Description:
2.0 cubic feet

Biographical/Historical note

T.J. (Jack) Kent was Coordinator of Housing, Planning and Development. His title was changed to Deputy for Development in
July, 1966. On leave from his job as professor of city planning with the University of California, Berkeley, Kent was responsible
for promoting the regional home rule plan which would not be implemented.

Scope and Contents

This sub-series focuses on housing and development issues, including the City Demonstration Program and the Transit Task Force.
The City Demonstration Program, also known as the Model Cities Program, was a proposal to revitalize the Hunters Point-Bayview
community by taking advantage of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Demonstration Cities Act of 1966." After more than a year
of work on the proposal, its submission was terminated at the last minute. Of note is the mayor's recommendation against including
a portion of the Mission District in the application, contrary to the Redevelopment Agency's recommendation. There is also
a memo written by Justin Herman summarizing the Hunters Point housing situation (City Demonstration Program, 9 of 9).

In Kent's Mission District Redevelopment files is evidence of opposition as well as (failed) efforts by the mayor to get the
Board of Supervisors' approval for an Inner Mission plan. Legislative efforts to make federal funding available for Hunters
Point, Area G, are found in the Hunters Point Redevelopment file.

The Transit Task Force, also known as the Market Street (Design) Task Force, coordinated the design of the two-decked subway
for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and the Municipal Railway (MUNI), as well as the above-ground street.

Irwin Mussen served as Urban Renewal Coordinator, a position he also held in George Christopher's administration. Mussen left
City Hall in June, 1965. Under Kent, Mussen advised the mayor on renewal, housing and development activities. As co-director
of the Community Renewal Program (CRP), a federally funded program to study and guide urban renewal, he wrote the original
CRP prospectus. The Urban Renewal Coordinator prepared the annual Workable Program for Community Development report, whose
certification was required to receive federal money for urban renewal and low-rent housing. Mussen was chair of the Inter-Agency
Committee on Urban Renewal (IACUR), which ironed out the differences between city agencies in their renewal programs. He was
also involved in the Market Street Task Force.

Scope and Contents

This sub-series includes files of districts undergoing renewal and code enforcement, including South of Market and the Western
Addition. The Embarcadero Freeway file includes mechanical drawings of two plans for a depressed roadway which did not proceed.
Notably, the Western Addition Area A-2 files include the United San Francisco Freedom Movement's critical assessment of the
A-2 renewal plan, maintaining that the area was really two distinct neighborhoods, with the Fillmore being predominantly Negro,
poor, and low-rent as compared to the "L-shaped" neighborhood being white, wealthy, and moderate-rent. The assessment also
maintains that the A-2 plan was essentially "Negro removal." The A-2 files also note the formation of block clubs of residents
opposed to redevelopment, as well as the recommendation of "phased redevelopment" by the International Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's Union/Pacific Maritime Association.

John H. Anderson became Urban Renewal Coordinator in July, 1965. Anderson's title was changed to Assistant Deputy for Development
in 1966. Anderson worked on the 95.6 million-dollar City Demonstration Program application (which would not be submitted).
He also authored the IACUR "Report on Housing in San Francisco." The Citizens Housing Task Force reviewed the IACUR reports
on housing and business relocation, and recommended establishing a Housing Commission to provide centralized housing services,
and a Citizens Advisory Committee.

Scope and Contents

Anderson's Hunters Point file includes discussion of the maintenance and expected removal of the temporary war housing structures
in the Ridge Point project in Hunters Point. A draft statement by the Human Rights Commission on an affirmative action housing
program is within the City Demonstration Program, Hunters Point Reports and Memoranda, file. Also, there is a draft resolution
by the commission on low- and moderate-income housing (Housing, 1 of 2). A report on the activities of the Economic Opportunity
Council which the mayor established to coordinate anti-poverty efforts is found in the council file. Plans for a subsurface
roadway connecting the Golden Gate Bridge approaches to the Embarcadero Freeway along the northern waterfront are found in
the Golden Gate Freeway file. Of particular note is a copy of T.J. Kent's report on the city's redevelopment policies prepared
for Mayor-Elect Alioto.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically.

Box 4, Folder 19

BART,1966

Box 4, Folder 20

CIAC,1964-1967

Box 4, Folder 21

Citizens Housing Task Force,1967

See Also:

IACUR

Box 4, Folder 22

Formation,1967

Box 4, Folder 23

Minutes,1967

Box 4, Folder 24

Relocation Subcommittee,1967

Box 4, Folder 25

First Report,October-November, 1967

Box 4, Folders 26-29

City Demonstration Program,1966-1967

See also:

Hunters Point

Box 4, Folder 30

Family Service Agency,1965

Box 4, Folder 31

Assignments,March-April, 1966

Box 4, Folder 32

Advisory Committee Members,April, 1966

Box 4, Folder 33

Minutes,March-June, 1966

Box 4, Folder 34

Hunters Point Reports and Memoranda,1966

Box 4, Folder 35

Parents & Taxpayers Newsletters,1966

Box 4, Folder 36

San Francisco Unified School District,1966

Box 4, Folder 37

Staff,1966

Box 4, Folder 38

United Community Fund,1966

Box 4, Folder 39

Economic Opportunity Council,1966

Box 4, Folder 40

Golden Gate Freeway,1965

Box 5, Folders 1-2

Housing,1966-1967

See Also

IACUR

Box 5, Folder 3

Studies,1966-1967

Box 5, Folder 4

Hunters Point,1965-1967

See Also:

City Demonstration Program

IACUR,

See Also:

Citizens Housing Task Force

Box 5, Folder 5

Corridor Sub-committee,1966

Box 5, Folder 6

Housing Report Drafts,1967

Box 5, Folder 7

"A Report on Housing in San Francisco"May, 1967

Box 5, Folder 8

"Report on Housing and Business Relocation Services" (Draft),June, 1967

This series contains only two press releases and five speeches, including Shelley's report to the Board of Supervisors following
the Hunters Point riots. A few other speeches and statements are found in the Legislative and Issues series. Those topics
include: regional home rule (in the mayor's ABAG files); "18-Point Program" for San Francisco (summary, in T.J. Kent, IACUR,
2 of 3); Western Addition Area 2 (in Irwin Mussen, A-2, 2 of 2); Midtown Park dedication (Mussen, Western Addition Area 1);
Western Addition Area 2 (radio address, in John Anderson's A-2 file); rehabilitation of temporary war housing (Anderson, Hunters
Point); and the Hunters Point riots (Anderson, City Demonstration Program, 4 of 4). Additionally, the John Francis "Jack"
Shelley Collection at the Labor Archives, San Francisco State University, includes mayoral speeches and news clippings.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject, with press releases followed by speeches.

Box 5, Folder 20

Press, Appointments,1966-1967

Box 5, Folder 21

"After 16 Months on the Hot Seat",April 30, 1965

Box 5, Folder 22

Board of Supervisors, Report to,October 3, 1966

Box 5, Folder 23

Downtown Association Board of Directors,November 25, 1964

Box 5, Folder 24

Press Club Gang Dinner,September 18, 1964

Box 5, Folder 25

St. John's Armenian Apostolic Church,January, 1965

Series 3
Public Services,1953-1967

Physical Description:
2.33 cubic feet

Scope and Contents

This series contains proclamations and events, including the visits of special guests, and the Public Service Director's interoffice
memoranda. Of interest are the approximately 100 black-and-white photographs documenting Sister City activities with Osaka,
Japan. Also noteworthy are plans for the twentieth anniversary celebration of the United Nations, and correspondence regarding
the deed to Father Junipero Serra's house in Mallorca, Spain. (See the Small Manuscripts collection MSS 20/9-12 for the deed.)
The Interoffice Memo subjects include the watershed property in San Mateo County (May 18, 1964 and July 6, 1964), employment
of the physically handicapped (April 14, 1964), retention of the Naval shipyard (April 7 and 28 and July 1, 1964 and other
dates), and opposition to the Panhandle Freeway (Oct. 19, 1964), as well as a directive from the mayor (March 25, 1964) that
"Coats must be worn in my office."

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically, with constituent concerns followed by special events.